NPR loves The New York Times, and vice versa. On Tuesday, NPR’s Fresh Air granted most of its hour to a 44-minute interview with David Enrich, the paper’s business investigations editor. His new book focusing on Donald Trump and Justice Clarence Thomas is brazenly titled Murder The Truth: Fear, The First Amendment, And A Secret Campaign To Protect The Powerful.
NPR host Tonya Mosley never asked Enrich if that title was truly appropriate when reporters damage someone’s reputation with maliciously inaccurate reporting. What about reporters murdering the truth? The online headline is:
‘Murder the Truth’ describes a campaign to silence journalists and curb free speech
Nowhere in this 44 minutes did they discuss cases outside Enrich’s picture of crusading progressive journalists versus obstreperous capitalist oligarchs. For example, they never raised the…
